Inflamed, Rupa Marya
Inflamed, Rupa Marya
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Inflamed
Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

Author: Rupa Marya, Raj Patel

Narrator: Raj Patel, Rupa Marya

Unabridged: 13 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/03/2021

Synopsis

This program is read by the authors.

Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world.

The Covid pandemic and the shocking racial disparities in its impact. The surge in inflammatory illnesses such as gastrointestinal disorders and asthma. Mass uprisings around the world in response to systemic racism and violence. Rising numbers of climate refugees. Our bodies, societies, and planet are inflamed.

Boldly original, Inflamed takes us on a medical tour through the human body—our digestive, endocrine, circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, immune, and nervous systems. Unlike a traditional anatomy book, this groundbreaking work illuminates the hidden relationships between our biological systems and the profound injustices of our political and economic systems. Inflammation is connected to the food we eat, the air we breathe, and the diversity of the microbes living inside us, which regulate everything from our brain’s development to our immune system’s functioning. It’s connected to the number of traumatic events we experienced as children and to the traumas endured by our ancestors. It’s connected not only to access to health care but to the very models of health that physicians practice.

Raj Patel, the renowned political economist and New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with the physician Rupa Marya to offer a radical new cure: the deep medicine of decolonization. Decolonizing heals what has been divided, reestablishing our relationships with the Earth and one another. Combining the latest scientific research and scholarship on globalization with the stories of Marya’s work with patients in marginalized communities, activist passion, and the wisdom of Indigenous groups, Inflamed points the way toward a deep medicine that has the potential to heal not only our bodies, but the world.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About Rupa Marya

Dr. Rupa Marya is a physician, an activist, a mother and a composer. She is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. She is a cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of health workers committed to addressing disease through structural change. At the invitation of Lakhóta health leaders, she advises the Mni Wichoni Health Circle, an Indigenous-led health sovereignty project at Standing Rock decolonizing food and wellness. She is the cofounder of the Deep Medicine Circle, a women of color-led, worker directed organization healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, restoration and learning. Through the Deep Medicine Circle, she leads the Farming is Medicine program, an innovative reparative food system example, which starts with moving land back to Indigenous hands and farming under their sovereignty, centering values of reciprocity, mutual benefit and reintegration into right relationship with one another and the web of life. She has toured twenty-nine countries with her band, Rupa & the April Fishes, whose music was described by the legend Gil Scott-Heron as “Liberation Music.”

About Raj Patel

Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He worked at the World Bank and WTO, and has been teargassed on four continents protesting against them. A James Beard Foundation Leadership Award winner, he has testified about the causes of the global food crisis to the US, UK and EU governments, and is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved, the New York Times bestselling The Value of Nothing, and the coauthor of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, all of which have been translated and taught across the world, as have his scholarly publications in economics, philosophy, politics, and public health journals. His first documentary, filmed over the course of a decade in Malawi and the United States, is The Ants & The Grasshopper. He is a board member of the Deep Medicine Circle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Raj on August 02, 2021

Look, there's no pretending that I'm being at all objective about this. But since the Library Review and Booklist gave us starred reviews, perhaps you might enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it with Rupa!......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on January 21, 2022

A classic Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) witticism goes: an old fish asked a young fish “how’s the water?” to which the young fish replied “what the fuck is water?” The point of it is, we may not understand or even perceive the shit were swimming in, because…we’re in it. Like wearing a mask and not knowin......more

Goodreads review by Peter on September 01, 2021

One of the core parts of my old day job was to train student politicians how to lobby and argue with the college and other external stakeholders. And basically there were two main lessons that were at the heart of it. The first was make sure they know what you are talking about - avoid jargon and ne......more

Goodreads review by hallie on January 19, 2022

This book is a great introduction to thinking critically about the state of our health today— health as individuals, as a society, healthcare as an institution, and the perspectives that are often overlooked and intentionally left out of the narrative. The book is set up as an analysis of injustices......more

Goodreads review by Amelia on March 25, 2022

!!!!!!! I cannot recommend this book enough. Thank you Raj Patel and Rupa Marya for highlighting the intersecting injustices that impact the individual and the collective, and for directing great attention to what must be done about it. One of the most important books I’ve ever read.......more

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